[CentOS] preparing to migrating to new system

Wed Dec 22 13:35:12 UTC 2010
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 12/22/10 4:26 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Eero Volotinen<eero.volotinen at iki.fi>  wrote:
>> 2010/12/22 Rajagopal Swaminathan<raju.rajsand at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> scp<oldbox>:/etc/passwd<brand new CentOS 6 Box geewiz>:/etc/passwd
>>> ditto /etc/gshadow,/etc/groups, /etc/gshadow
>>
>> It's possibly better way only to cp&paste normal usernames, not
>> internal daemons and so on.
>>
>
> I did not quite understand the phrase "internal daemons and so on".
> Could you elucidate further please...
>
> I alluded to the names of four files which matter in the context.

On CentOS 5, uids up to 500 are reserved for the system and will belong to 
various installed packages.  501 and up should be the users you installed locally.

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   Les Mikesell
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